Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 344, March 2007

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 127. At its meeting in November 2005, the Committee requested the Government to keep it informed of the final decision in the legal proceedings currently under way against the trade union official Mr Fernando Espino Arévalo (General Secretary of the Metropolitan Rail Transport Workers’ Union) and the other participants in the industrial action of
2. 8 August 2002 in the metropolitan passenger train system.
3. 128. In its communication of 12 September 2006, the Government reported that according to the Federal District Public Prosecutor’s Office, on 16 August 2006, the head of its Fiftieth Investigative Office, which is responsible for the investigation under Case No. FACI/50T/1008/02-08 in relation to Mr Fernando Espino Arévalo and others for their probable involvement in the offence of “coalition of public servants” and “attacks on means of communication”, had reported that once Mr Fernando Espino Arévalo finished his term of office as a legislator, the investigation would proceed in accordance with the law, as he currently enjoys constitutional immunity.
4. 129. The Committee notes this information and requests the Government, once Mr Fernando Espino Arévalo has completed his term of office as legislator, to communicate the final decision on the legal proceedings under way against this trade union leader and the other participants in the industrial action of 8 August 2002 in the metropolitan passenger train system.